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Cool CSS Borders: drop shadows, gradients, overlays

by: Matt Hofstetter | March 9 , 2011 | CSS

.grad_border { /* Gradient Border */ -moz-box-shadow:0 0 10px black; -webkit-box-shadow:0 0 10px black; box-shadow:inset 0 0 10px black; } .drop_shadow { /* Gradient Border */ -moz-box-shadow:5px 5px 10px black; -webkit-box-shadow:5px 5px 10px black; box-shadow:inset 5px 5px 10px black; } .border_overlay… view article

XML Validation, Well Formed VS Valid

by: Matt Hofstetter | February 27 , 2011 | XML

When an XML file is correctly formatted with proper syntax, it is said to be well formed. Consider the following well formed XML document. A Christmas Carol "Charles Dickens" Fiction 1843 86 A Treatise on Government Aristotle Non-Fiction 322 195 A… view article

XML Fundamentals: Elements, Attributes and Entities

by: Matt Hofstetter | February 25 , 2011 | XML

XML (extensible markup language) allows data to be formatted and transferred across disparate systems. It has become a universal method for data transportation as it is completely platform independent, and can be parsed by almost any programming language. The basic building block of XML is an… view article